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The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem. Yet Helen in Egypt is not a simple retelling of the Egyptian legend but a recreation of the many myths surrounding Helen, Paris, Achilles, Theseus, and other figures of Greek tradition, fused with the mysteries of Egyptian hermeticism.
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- Title Helen in Egypt: Poetry
- Author Hilda Doolittle
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York
- Date 1974-01-17
- ISBN 9780811205443 / 0811205444
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.99 x 5.25 x 0.85 in (20.29 x 13.34 x 2.16 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.52
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